Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition with artist Fiona Pardington. One of New Zealand’s foremost photographers, Pardington's solo exhibition of recent works will encompass some of the defining features of her practice: memory, mourning, beauty and sensuality. Her captivating images draw heavily on the European tradition of the vanitas or momento mori painting, where the luxury and opulence of the material world is undermined by the imminence of decay. Pardington meticulously composes each study by using found objects imbued with their own history, such as rediscovered family heirlooms or native botanical items. Life, death, longing and loss are all intertwined in these photographs. 

Fiona Pardington has exhibited widely since 1989. Recent exhibitions include Contact at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany in 2012, the 2012 Ukraine Biennale and the 17th Biennale of Sydney curated by David Elliot in 2010. Her work is represented in several major international museum collections including the Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C and in New Zealand the Christchurch Art Gallery, The University of Auckland, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery and Govett Brewster Art Gallery.

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Daniel Boyd’s paintings re-interpret Aboriginal and Australian-European history. He has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include 'History is Made at Night', Artspace, Sydney (2013); 'The Transit of Venus', Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney (2012); and 'Up in Smoke Tour', Natural History Museum, London (2012). This is his 4th solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

For the 2014 Sydney Festival Boyd has collaborated with the electronic duo Canyons for '100 Million Nights'. Premiere at the Sydney Opera House on Jan 21.

Boyd has been selected for numerous group exhibitions including 'Future Primitive', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013); 'Under the sun: the Kate Challis RAKA Award', at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2013); 'Debil Debil', curated by Marcia Langton, at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2013); the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (2012); 'Crossing Cultures', Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, USA (2012); and 'One Caption Hides Another', at Bétonsalon, Paris (2011). In 2014 Boyd’s work will be included in 'Regarding Picasso: Contemporary Artists’ Responses to His Art', at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

Daniel Boyd paintings are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, as well as numerous private collections national

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